To be fair I've been running one of them almost a year, and haven't really had any problems. An occasional channel close, which luckily hasn't been that bad, and I've seny thousands and thousands of small zaps and bought a few things from some of the fine npubs selling their products here all with lightning.

It might not be perfect but it's completely changed how I use the network, and the further I've pushed myself into self hosting all that backend the more I understand what's going on and the more I like it.

It's not for everyone sure, but it's been a worthwhile, somewhat challenging for my tech limitations, and fun little challenge for myself to tackle.